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Latest tutorials, guides, and best practices for modern web development.

How to Create Accessible Links

Diving deeper into improving the accessibility of HTML anchors.

8 min readNov 15, 2022

9 Amazing Visual Studio Code Extensions To Skyrocket Productivity

Use these extensions to save time, increase your productivity and write better code.

6 min readOct 31, 2022

How To Convert Text to Speech With JavaScript

Convert text to speech easily with the Web Speech API.

3 min readOct 25, 2022

How To Make Visual Studio Code Look Amazing

Create a visually pleasing, consistent editor which prevents eye fatigue and keeps you productive.

6 min readOct 20, 2022

11 Visual Studio Code Extensions You Don’t Need

Since Visual Studio Code Extensions can cause performance issues, increase CPU usage, and have conflicts it’s best to limit to the ones you need.

6 min readOct 14, 2022•Wesley Smits

Getting Started with the JavaScript URL Object

If you’ve been a developer for some time you will have undoubtedly worked with URLs before. It’s funny and frustrating at the same time how such a simple thing as URL manipulation can become so messy and prone to errors. In this article, I want to take a deep dive into the JavaScript URL object....

2 min readSep 26, 2022•Wesley Smits

7 Reasons Why TypeScript is Better Than Vanilla JavaScript

Before I used TypeScript on actual projects I used to think it was a waste of time. I thought it would cost a lot of effort to document a type on every variable and function and make custom types and interfaces and more for marginal benefits to my code. Little did I know that I...

6 min readSep 19, 2022•Wesley Smits

How to Use the FormData Object

The JavaScript FormData interface gives us a way to create an object of key-value pairs representing form fields and their values. It uses the same format a form would use if the encoding type were set to “multipart/form-data”. This makes it easy to format form data before sending it alon

3 min readSep 9, 2022•Wesley Smits